Time and Setting in Pride and Prejudice

Time and Setting in Pride and Prejudice

1. Setting

   • revolves around the manners, behaviours, duties, civilities, expectations and activities of this class of gentry and aristocrats during the Georgian and Regency periods in England
   • Written in the Classicism/Romanticism period
   • During the Napoleonic Wars (1797–1815)
   • Longbourn, rural England, between 1796 and 1813

2. Characters

   • Protaganist: Elizabeth Bennet
   • Antagonist: Lady Catherine De Bourgh

3. Narrative Voice

   • Comic Tone
   • 3rd person and omniscient
   • Centers around the character of Elizabeth.

4. Themes

   • Love, marriage
   • Repuataion and class

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